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We have been staying busy at Nostalgia Film as summer turns into fall! We recently shot a yoga tutorial for the web for the lovely Maya at Breathe Eat Dance Evolve, which we cannot wait to finish editing to share with you.

We have been booking weddings for spring and fall of 2012, and are entering the fall 2011 wedding season. We still have dates available, including some availability in 2011, so please contact us.

We also have some sweet family Super 8 film footage we shot earlier this month, which we hope to share soon. We were lucky enough to travel to Nevada and Arizona, and see the Grand Canyon for the first time. We have some HD footage of that to share, too, and I have a couple of Holga photographs from the trip, below, complete with lots of fun light leaks and effects.

Over the Easter weekend, we traveled for the first time to Marathon and Marfa, Texas. I had never been out west before, so I was super excited, and the Railroad Revival Tour was the highlight of an awesome weekend escape. We stumbled across the train rolling into Marfa to an excited crowd, and later saw the three amazing bands–Old Crow Medicine Show, Mumford and Sons, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros–perform a spirited concert at El Cosmico, the smallest and most intimate show of the tour. We stayed in a historical, haunted hotel in Marathon, soaked by the pool in Marfa, made some fun, new friends, and took in the overwhelming and chilling wildfire damage while driving through Alpine and Fort Davis (and narrowly missed the spreading fires in Balmorhea, which had just been evacuated when we arrived).

We fell in love with this part of the state, that I am sure I will visit again soon.

Before we left for the trip, I picked up a toy Holga camera to play around with (in addition to the other cameras I am usually lugging around: my Super 8 moving film camera, my Canon Powershot, and the 8 megapixel phone in my camera… as well as sometimes Mike’s Super 8 and our HD camcorder. Yeah, we travel light!). I’ve never shot with medium format film, so I have some learning to do on shot composition! Everything was much wider that I expected from the tiny viewfinder! The light leaks and vignetting of the camera are super fun though as I’d hoped. The whole set is here and most of it is below. We also shot two cartridges–100 feet–of Super 8 film while traveling through West Texas, so I will send those off to the L.A. lab this week and will share them here in the days to come…

Michael and I shot a couple rolls of Kodak Ektachrome 100D Reversal on his Canon 1014 XL-S in California the other week. We just got the film back Saturday, so no time to edit or add any music yet, so think of this as a little before & after. Ektachrome gets a bad wrap sometimes (undeserved I think), but you can check out its versatility in gray/rainy weather, overhead afternoon sun, and at sunset. I can’t wait to compare Ektachrome with all the other various stocks we’ve shot recently!

Any ideas as to what songs we should pair this with?

Leave your ideas in the comments!

I’ve had Luna’s “Sideshow By The Seashore” in my mind for the Santa Monica footage… Don’t ask my why I have a 16-year-old song stuck in my head!

As I had mentioned, we spent last week in L.A. and got to attend the bootcamp/conference, The Power of Super 8. I’ve spoken of the experience highly, as it was an enjoyable course in this wonderful small format film. I spent two years in film school many moons ago–which is when I discovered and fell in love with Super 8–and I think this conference covered almost as much in a weekend than a couple of years of film school did… for me anyway! And it brought up a lot of latent things in my memory, too, about filmmaking–lighting, cinematography, story development, etc.

On top of learning a lot from some really talented people in the industry, and meeting lots of cool people doing some incredible things, we walked away with a ton of inspiration and some new tricks up our sleeve. As my partner (in film and matrimony) Michael does a lot of various audio/video production work outside of wedding films, and I do webmaster work full-time as well, it was a nice treat to spend a whole week together focused on solely our love of filmmaking!

Some of the speakers and my favorite films follow. They also give you a great idea of the wide range and amazing potential of Super 8 film!

In addition to Kentucky wedding films, they send their honeymooners out with Super 8 film cartridges, cameras, and instruction, then help get it developed and telecined. I’ve love to be able to do that for our couples when we have enough extra cameras laying around (they are quickly piling up around here now that we have four) and to be able to share the love of Super 8! Can you believe this film was shot by honeymooners?

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We spent last last weekend in L.A. for the conference, The Power of Super 8 Film. We learned a lot of new tips and tricks, met a lot of nice filmmakers from all over, and saw a lot of inspiring Super 8 films. I hope to write a longer blog about it soon when I get a chance, but thought I’d post a few photos of the trip in the meantime. We shot a couple of rolls of Ektachrome 100D Reversal at the Griffith Park observatory on a gray, rainy day, too, and the Santa Monica Pier at sunset, that we’ll share as soon as we get it back and edit it.

These urban coyotes at the base of Griffith Park may have been Michael’s favorite part of the trip… (Title inspiration courtesy of the Honey Badger, of course!)